Ban private schools

Yeah so?? That advantage is paid for, and therefore deserved. Not some kids fault that their parents have more money than mine.

Yes its not some kids fault that their parents don't have enough money to pay for private school so they shouldn't be disadvantaged as a result.Children shouldn't be disadvantaged in life based on what parents they have, as what parents you have is 100% down to luck and thus unfair on the children.
All children should have equal opportunities in education, paying for a better education for your children is unfair as most parents can't afford it and that puts your children at an unfair advantage and means that they get better grades/into better universities than more naturally talented/more hardworking children from working class backgrounds.Reasons like this are essentially why most things shouldn't be privatised and should be paid through taxes and available to everyone based on merit.

I disagree with your opinion

There's always going to be those wealthier than you who will have enough disposable income to fund private school education for their children

Why not? If you can go for it and if not, don't be a hater

hmmm I didn't think of it that way. However if that's done, then that would reduce the number of students with high academics, ie the quality and number of students going to universities will be less. Which should be a bad thing, right?
Like it or not state schools will always be state schools, ie not many with high standards. Also grammar schools exist!

Thats elitism for ya!
But I bet you any student who is equally as talented and motivated and went to crappy schools all his life will be regarded more brighter than that private school student.

I disagree I don't think that education should be hierarchical with the rich at the top and the working class at the bottom, it should be equal all over with the best teachers spread out so every pupil can be taught the most difficult parts of a subject by the best teachers. This would lead to a fairer society where no one has an advantage over another in any way. That way the working classes might find themselves not only capable of fulfilling the roles that the middle classes think they own and have an exclusive right to but also find themselves doing all the different jobs they dreamed of doing part time.
What people seem to forget is that the public school system is full of oxbridge teachers who graduated with a first class degree and use their friends in oxbridge universities to earmark students for oxbridge long before the pupil has finished his a levels.
The bright disadvantaged pupil from a run down state school is a very small minority compared to the percentage of public school pupils who go on to oxbridge and the percentage of grammar school suckers who get in to oxbridge is presumably high along with well facilitated state schools in nice areas is probably the same. Point is that disadvantaged children do get preferential treatment because they have a lot of potential to succeed at oxbridge. The same as the others have had preferential treatment in the class of education they have received.

Yes ban them, they get a clear and statistically proven advantage over public schools when applying to oxbridge. Very unfair.

There's an ability distribution between private schools and the box-standard comp because most private schools require entrance exams so, from the very start, are selecting "brighter" children. However, I think this has only a small impact.

The fact of the matter is that children who attend private schools will come from homes where there is more of a focus on education and, as a direct result of everything that comes with this, more children from these schools are going to go onto the best universities. Besides, the gap between the best state schools and the worst is just as big a problem. If you banned private schools then the state schools in good areas would just replace them in all but name, and fees, and you would have the same problems.

It isn't a case that private schools are bad and state schools good - private schools are excellent, on the whole, and the reality is that they're much superior in many ways. Comprehensive schools should be studying their example to give pupils the same advantages that those at private school enjoy. We need to increase opportunity for those in the state schools and bring them up to line with the private and top state schools, not attack those which are working as they should be.

I went to a 'bog standard comp', 50% A*-C with a mixed but not terrible intake, and did fine. I doubt my grades would be different had I attended private school.

GCSEs and A Levels are pretty easy, so bright kids anywhere will come out with A*s.

I'd love to have the old boy network my public school colleagues do, but that's different to the actual education.

Equality of education is fundamental in a fair society and it's to our great disadvantage otherwise with the best talent not being given the same opportunity to succeed. In other words, it shouldn't be the case that those who can't afford to pay should be at a disadvantage as your post suggests.

Unless the Government banned private schools and put in place huge fines for people trying to privately educate their children or long prison sentences?

I see you around a lot, and you are a class A prick...